Scott, Walter Sir 1771-1832

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott ( Book )
2,370 editions published between 1033 and 2010 in 50 languages and held by 6,820 libraries worldwide
Relates the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.

Kenilworth by Walter Scott ( Book )
841 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in 21 languages and held by 3,845 libraries worldwide
Sous le règne d'Elisabeth I, la jeune fille de sir Hugh Robsart, Amy, épouse secrètement Robert Dudley, comte de Leicester, le favori de la reine. Celui-ci refuse de s'aliéner les faveurs d'Elisabeth, et, déchiré entre son amour sincère pour Amy et son ambition démesurée, déclenche à son insu une série de machinations qui causeront sa perte.

The talisman by Walter Scott ( Book )
790 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in 28 languages and held by 3,453 libraries worldwide
The talisman of the title is the amulet by which Saladin effects the cure of Richard and which he presents to the Scottish knight.

Rob Roy by Walter Scott ( Book )
686 editions published between 1800 and 2010 in 22 languages and held by 3,201 libraries worldwide
By turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive come together. Newly edited from the 'Magnum Opus' text of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes and a critical introduction exploring the originality and complexity of Scott's achievement.

Quentin Durward by Walter Scott ( Book )
913 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in 26 languages and held by 3,135 libraries worldwide
Young Quentin Durward belongs to the Scottish Guards, and when he saves Louis XI during a boar hunt, he wins the hand of his love, Isabelle of Croye.

The bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott ( Book )
448 editions published between 1819 and 2009 in 15 languages and held by 2,789 libraries worldwide
Love of the last heir of a ruined family for the daughter of an enemy.

The heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott ( Book )
604 editions published between 1800 and 2008 in 11 languages and held by 2,657 libraries worldwide
"The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle - Scott's only chronicle - which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives. It is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashion the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Scott places this fundamental issue in its immediate political context, in history as represented by the life of Deans, and alongside the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines." "This edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text established in accordance with the tried policies and practices of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and in its annotation treats comprehensively the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources."--BOOK JACKET.

Waverley by Walter Scott ( Book )
741 editions published between 1800 and 2010 in 15 languages and held by 2,506 libraries worldwide
The first 'historical novel' in English, Waverley (1814) is set at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland. He visits a Jacobite laird in the Lowlands of Perthshire, and then makes his way into the Highlands, where he meets a chieftain and his clansmen. Before long Waverley is caught up in the Jacobite cause, offering his allegiance to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and to the dauntless Flora Mac-Ivor. The hero's journey of self-discovery takes place in a country torn by civil war, as the political outlook of the eighteenth century meets the older social organization of the Highlands in violent confrontation. --Publisher.

The lady of the lake by Walter Scott ( Book )
1,007 editions published between 1800 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 2,453 libraries worldwide
"Romance set in Scotland"

Guy Mannering by Walter Scott ( Book )
297 editions published between 1771 and 2006 in 13 languages and held by 2,176 libraries worldwide
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